Photo Challenge - Day 22 - The last thing I bought

I got OPI Shatter nail polish the other day. I used blue and pink on my nails and mum used black and blue and her toes were silver and black. I didn't do my toenails yet. I am going to soon.

Photo Challenge - Day 16 - Flower

Fun with Art

Faith is really into her art at the moment. She’s always had a bit of a flair for it. You can give her some bits of paper and a glue stick and she will right away see something amazing and beautiful that she could turn it into. Lately though, she’s been experimenting with drawing in some different styles than anything she’s done before. She had a relieving teacher who taught them for a day and he was pretty good at drawing and showed the class some new drawing techniques. Faith took to it straight away, and after playing around with styles and colours, she made this drawing of a summer/autumn tree.

When her teacher came back and saw their amazing creations, she decided to continue teaching them some more drawing techniques. Every night, sitting in front of the TV, Faith’s been sitting quietly with paper and pencil and playing around with shading and colours and creating something beautiful and new. It’s fascinating to watch her.

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Family Time

Today was Waitangi today so the kids and Chris all had the day off. We went for a walk along the Forest Hill track. 

Faith led the way for most of it, pointing out interesting bits and pieces along the way, and surprising us with just how fit she is these days! (She pretty much raced along the track and didn’t even get warm – I, on the other hand, was exhausted pushing the pram up the hill and actually said at one point ‘I’m just gonna have a wee lie down’.)

Faith has an eye for details, and she would notice the tiniest flowers and cobwebs and point them out to us. I found myself photographing things for her that I might not even have noticed if she wasn’t there.